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Title: Case Study of a Deep Slab Instability and Associated Dry Avalanches
Date: 2000
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Torsten Geldsetzer, Chris Stethem
Description: This study considers the predictive merit of weather and snowpack data for avalanches that released throughout the winter on a layer of faceted crysta...
Object ID: issw-2000-101-108.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, faceted crystals, snow cover stability, snow cover structure, snow stratigraphy
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Title: Forecasting Factors for Skier-Triggered Avalanches at a Helicopter Skiing Operation
Date: 2000
Authors: Alan S.T. Jones, Bruce Jamieson, Mike Wiegele
Description: To forecast skier-triggered avalanches, stability, snowpack and meteorological variables, and records of previous avalanche activity are typically use...
Object ID: issw-2000-184-191.pdf
Keywords: avalanches, avalanche forecasting, avalanche triggering, skier triggering
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Title: Field Observations of Skier-Triggered Avalanches
Date: 2000
Authors: J. Schweizer, J. B. Jamieson
Description: Snowpack characteristics for skier-triggered avalanches are described in order to better understand skier triggering, to improve snow profile observat...
Object ID: issw-2000-192-199.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, avalanche formation, skier triggering, snow cover stability, physical properties
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Title: Measurements of Human-Triggered Avalanches from the Swiss Alps
Date: 2000
Authors: Jurg Schweizer, Martina Lutschg
Description: Ten years of avalanche incidents data from the Swiss Alps have been analyzed in order to find characteristics of human triggered avalanches. We were p...
Object ID: issw-2000-200-207.pdf
Keywords: snow, avalanche, avalanche accidents, avalanche release, snow stability, avalan forecasting, skier triggering
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Title: Lessons Learned: Cordova, Alaska's Residential Avalanche Accident, Jan. 26, 2000
Date: 2000
Authors: Doug Fesler, Jill Fredston
Description: During late January and early February 2000, a cycle of long-running, slab avalanches caused two deaths, blocked major transportation corridors, and h...
Object ID: issw-2000-486.pdf
Keywords: fatalities, accident, slab avalanche, residential, hazard
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Title: Study of the 1999 Avalanches in the Obergoms Valley, Switzerland, With Respect to Avalanche Hazard Mapping
Date: 2000
Authors: Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt
Description: The Obergoms valley is a highly visited tourist region in south-western Switzerland. It was dramatically struck by avalanches during the Winter of 199...
Object ID: issw-2000-495-500.pdf
Keywords: avalanche hazard mapping, avalanche dynamics, deflecting dams, deposition depths
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Title: Effectiveness of Long Term Avalanche Defence Measures in Winter 1999 in Switzerland
Date: 2000
Authors: Stefan Margreth, Stephan Harvey, Christian Wilhelm
Description: The exceptional avalanche period of February 1999 in the Swiss Alps with more than 1000 destructive avalanches was a valuable test for the long term a...
Object ID: issw-2000-501-508.pdf
Keywords: destructive avalanches, avalanche defence, supporting structures
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Title: Occurrence Conditions of Two Catastrophic Avalanches at Chamonix, France
Date: 2000
Authors: Francois Rapin, Christophe Ancey
Description: In February 1999, in Chamonix, France, a large avalanche destroyed 14 houses and killed 12 people in a village called Montroc and another flowed throu...
Object ID: issw-2000-509-513.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, mitigation, chamonix
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Title: The Lavanchers Avalanche of February 23rd 1999, Aosta Valley, Italy
Date: 2000
Authors: Massimiliano Barbolini, Enrico Ceriani, Giorgio Del Monte, Valerio Segor, Fabrizio Savi
Description: The purpose of the present contribution is to present and analyse in detail an avalanche event which occurred on February 23rd 1999 in the Western Ita...
Object ID: issw-2000-519-526.pdf
Keywords: catastrophic avalanches, winter 1999, italian alps, lavanchers avalanche, protective measures
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Title: Overview of the 1999 Measurements at the SLF Test-Site Vallee De La Sionne
Date: 2000
Authors: Francois Dufour, Urs Gruber, Perry Bartelt, Walter J. Ammann
Description: Three large avalanches were artificially triggered on January 30th, February 10th and February 25th 1999, at the Vallee de la Sionne test site of the ...
Object ID: issw-2000-527-534.pdf
Keywords: avalanche deposits, avalanche dynamics, avalanche modelling, avalanche velocities, impact forces, avalanche experiments, avalanche forces
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Title: Effect of Snow Temperatures on Skier Triggering of Dry Slab Avalanches
Date: 1996
Authors: D.M. McClung, Jurg Schweizer
Description: Field observations and experience show that snow temperatures can have a strong influence on dry snow slab instability. Experience shows that there ar...
Object ID: issw-1996-113-117.pdf
Keywords: dry snow, snow temperature, snow strength, slab avalanche, avalanche formation, skier triggering
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Title: Glide Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 1996
Authors: A. Wilson, G. Statham, R. Bilak, B. Allen
Description: The forecasting of glide avalanches is particularly important when human life or structures are threatened. The best way to reduce the impact of such ...
Object ID: issw-1996-200-202.pdf
Keywords: avalanche forecasting, snow gliding, avalanche release, snow pack
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Title: Monitoring a Shear Frame Stability Index and Skier-Triggered Slab Avalanches Involving Persistent Snowpack Weaknesses
Date: 1994
Authors: Bruce Jamieson, Colin Johnston
Description: Ski guides routinely decide whether to ski or avoid particular avalanche slopes. Similarly, avalanche forecasters for ski areas and highways decide wh...
Object ID: issw-1994-014-021.pdf
Keywords: forecasters, safety decisions, terrain, stability, skier triggering
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Title: Model for Avalanches in Three Spatial Dimensions: Comparison of Theory to Experiments
Date: 1994
Authors: R. M. LANG, B. R. LEO
Description: A three-dimensional theory is derived to describe the temporal behavior of gravity currents of cohesionless granular media, in an attempt to model the...
Object ID: issw-1994-360-361.pdf
Keywords: runout, cohesionless granular media
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Title: Observations of Snow Avalanches on Dynamic Internal Structures at Alta, Utah
Date: 1994
Authors: Osamu Abe, Tsutomu Nakamura, Yasuaki Nohguchi, Rand Decker, Thor Femenias, Daniel Howlett
Description: Observations of snow avalanches on dynamic internal structures were carried out at Alta, Utah as a Japan/U.S. joint research project. A pylon to measu...
Object ID: issw-1994-385-392.pdf
Keywords: avalanche path, avalanche release
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